His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society \u2013 and he may yet become president<\/p>\n
Immigration is falling in Britain<\/a>. It\u2019s falling so fast and so hard \u2013 net migration to the UK nearly halved between 2024 and 2025 \u2013 that before long we could conceivably be a shrinking population<\/a>, with more people leaving the country than coming here. (And no, that\u2019s not because of an exodus of bright young Britons fleeing overseas, though you wouldn\u2019t blame them given how hard they\u2019re finding it currently to get jobs: the rise, as the Institute for Government\u2019s Sam Freedman helpfully points out<\/a>, is mainly in foreign students and foreign workers going home.) Even small-boat crossings are down on last year. We have, in short, finally made ourselves as unattractive to the rest of the world as leave voters always wanted \u2013 which means that, sooner or later, populists who built their careers on railing against supposedly uncontrolled immigration are going to be needing another scapegoat to explain why taking back control hasn\u2019t magically solved all the country\u2019s problems. And with a grim inevitability, they\u2019re finding it in turning on migrants who are already here.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the background to two hand grenades lobbed aggressively into British politics from across the Atlantic last week, causing enough concern in Downing Street to prompt a rare public rebuke. The claim from the US vice-president, JD Vance, that \u201crighteous anger\u201d was \u201cthe only response<\/a>\u201d to the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak would have been provocative enough, given its pointed echo of Nigel Farage\u2019s now widely condemned call for \u201cpure, cold rage<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society \u2013 and he may yet become president Immigration is falling in Britain. It\u2019s falling so fast and so hard \u2013 net migration to the UK nearly halved between 2024 and 2025 \u2013 that before long we could conceivably … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}